Date:	Tuesday 25 March 1969
Time:
Type:	Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	56-3602
MSN:	17351/41
Year of manufacture:	1957
Total airframe hrs:	3712 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney J57-P
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Limestone-Loring AFB, ME (LIZ) -   United States of America
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Limestone-Loring AFB, ME (LIZ)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Lost water injection at or near rotation due to frozen water injection surge tube; takeoff aborted and overran. The airplane went down an embankment and broke in two.

Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than Just a Tanker (Aerofax Series) / Robert S Hopkins, III

photo (c) Derek Ramlow; Limestone-Loring AFB, ME (LIZ); 1969

photo (c) Derek Ramlow; Limestone-Loring AFB, ME (LIZ); 1969

photo (c) Derek Ramlow; Limestone-Loring AFB, ME (LIZ); 1969

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